Inking-rollers.



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TTFTTED INKING-ROLLEBS.

Application filed June 11. 1

To all whom "it may concern:

Be it known that I, VILLIAM \V. Hiiiii, a citizen of the United States of America. residing at Sharpsburg. in the county of Bath and State of Kentucky. have invented new and useful Improvements in hiking-Rollers. of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to inking rollers for applying ink to type for the making 0 proofs. and it has for its object to provide a simple and efficient distributing roller which shall be equipped with an ink-containing reservoir or font. thus producing what may be termed a selfinking roller.

With these and other ends in view which will readily appear as the nature of the invention is better understood. the same consists in the improved construction and nove arrangement and combination of parts which will be hereinafter fully described and particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawing has been illustrated a simple and preferred form of being. however. understood that no limitation is necessarily made to the )recise structural details therein exhibited. but that changes, alterations and modifications within the scope of the invention may be resorted to when desired.

1 is a top plan In the drawing,-Fignre view of a device constructed in accordance with the invention, the cover having been removed and the frame being shown partly in section. Fig. 2 is a side elevation partly in section, showing the cover partly raisec and the inner side wall of the casing being removed. Fig. 3 is a side elevation with the cover closed. Fig. 1 is a detail side elevation illustrating a modified form of the invention.

Corresponding. parts in the several figures are denoted by like characters of reference.

The frame of the improved device includes a body member B of L-shaped cross section comprising a back wall 1 and a bottom member 2, said back wall being provided adjacent to its upper edge witha ledge 3 having an inclined face, as clearly seen in Fig. 2. Side walls H are securely connected with the body member B by fastening members such as screws 5 engaging screw holes 6 in the ends of the body member. the heads of the screws being preferably countersunk in the side walls. The latter afford bearings for shafts 7, 8 and 9 carrying, respectively, the fountain roller 10, the

Specification of Letters Patent.

distributing roller 11 and iiig roller the walls of the casing as cl the drawings.

The ink i'ese between the roller walls 4:

RPSBU RG, KENTUCKY an d by screws the a manner that a resilient plate firmly secured bers 11 upon 25 in such %TATE%PATET oririon WILLIAM W. HILL, 01 SEA Patented Dec. 26 12140.

910. Serial No. 566,441..

the main or ink- 12, the latter protruding beyond early seen in rvoir or fountain is formed 7. together with the side 13 which is or fastening memthe inclined face of the ledge lower edge 0 said resilient plate will bear against the.

roller 7. thus confining the ink 15 contained in the fountain or reservoir, but permitting a limited portion of said ink to adhere to the roller and to escape when the roller of the arrow in T may be rotated is rotated *ig. 2.

in V The fountain ro by frictional contact with from the fountain the direction l ler the inking roller 1'2. and the distributing roller 8 may likewise be rotated by frictional contact with the inking roller.

It is obvious that active use and over the the inking roll and such the inking roller by so as to resilient p ing the escape of the ink in Fig. 4 has er by the ink will be evenly when the the inking roller is passed device is in ink will be deposited upon fountain roller, distributed upon the distributing roller.

be evenly applied to the type by the inking roller.

A handle 16 having a rest the member B and late 13 for modification under which the and the distributing roller driven at a speed varying the inking roller with which contact.

with pinions 18, 1 21 is interposed between and 19 meshing with both and also meshing pinion 2O ing roller.

latter is 11, both the distr face of to the shafts carrying from that of greater diameter 0 thus causing the fountain roller and The shafts 7, S and a second idl the idler 21 the shaft of with with upon It is obvious rotated, motion will of which will the mai both ibuting roller to wip the inking roller.

9 and 20,

the pinions 18 or support 16 rear wa l o engaging t 10 the fountain.

fountain roller are positively from that 0 they are in 9 are equipped and an idler of said pinions 22, the latter and with the the main inkthat when the be transmitter the rollers 10 and be rotated at a speed n inking roller e over the surft is thought f the latter,

erasoo by this construction a more thorough a casing comprising a body member of t,- ution of the ink will be effected. shaped cross section and side walls connected suitable lid 2st is hingedly connected therewith, a resilient plate connected with with the casing. I Secured upon the underthe back wall of the t=-shaped body member, side of said lid is a flange 25 which. when. a roller supported for rotation in the casing 4 the lid is closed is adapted to engage the and combining with the side walls and with surface of the fountain roller 10 and to act the resilient plate to constitute an ink rein the capacity of a scrapeiu The purpose of this scraper is when the device is used I of the resilient plate in the direction of the with a back stroke to keep the ink from being carried in excessive quantities to the casing, and a flange secured upon the under inking roller. Urdlnarily, as is well known,

a side of the lid and adapted to contact with the ink is distributed with a forward stroke the inking roller to scrape the latter when of the device, but when inadvertently or reversely rotated.

to 'designedly the inking roller is kept in con 3. ln a device of the character described,

i 50 tact with the type upon the back stroke, a casing including a body of :L-shaped cross the flange or scraper 25 will prevent waste section and side Walls upon the same, shafts and too copious application of ink. supported for rotation in the side walls and Having thus described the invention, what carrying respectively a fountain roller, a dis is claimed as new, is tributing roller and an inking roller, said 55 1. In a device of the character described, fountain roller and distributing roller bea frame rnernber of hshaped cross section ing in contact *with the face of the inking having a ledge with an inclined face, side roller, a resilient plate secured upon the walls secured upon said frame member, back wall of the casing, means for forcing 325 shafts supported for rotation in the side the free edge of said plate in the direcmy walls and carrying, respectively, a fountain tion of the fountain roller, and means for roller, a distributing roller and an inking transmitting motion from the inking roller roller, a resilient plate secured upon the to the fountain roller and the distributing inclined ledge in engagement with the founroller. h tain roller and combining With the latter In testimony whereof lt af ix my signa- 65 and with the side walls of the casing to ture in presence of two Witnesses.

form an ink fountain, and a lid hlngedly WILLIAM V HILL. connected with the casing and having a l/Vitnesses: flange adapted to engage the inking roller. JAMES F. Hnns'r,

2, In a device of the character described, HARRY 1E. MATHERS. 

